SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND GUIDE TO ANSWER

Personal Assessment

1. Tell me about yourself.

- Who you are?
- Highlights of achievements/ Experience (focus on work experiences that are relevant to the
current position you are interviewing for)
- Why you are best fit. (Look at the job description of the position you are interviewing for and
try
to closely align your answers to that)
2. What are your greatest strengths,
- List skills that employers are seeking and narrow it
down. - Choose a skill that is the best for you.
- Show example of how you used the skills in the past (Use STAR meth.)
3. Greatest weaknesses?
- Choose weakness that will not prevent you from
succeeding the role. - Provide example of how you work to
improve your weakness.
4. Describe your ideal job/ Work Environment.
- To see if you understand what it is like to work in the company and if you
can thrive. - Emphasize on flexibility.
- Call out the culture of the company that you like (show that you did your research)
5. Define success. Define failure.
- Does not have to be materialistic.
- Can be in many forms. le: Satisfaction in achieving goals,
dream etc. - Create your story.
6. What motivates you to put forth your greatest
effort,
- Emphasize on flexibility, dynamic and adaptable.
- Explain on how your work and your goals (be it personal or
professional) - Tell about the skills you want to learn.
- Link how your work performance can make you achieve your goals.
- Can also mention about getting feedbacks help you to stay motivate and make you improve
yourself/ your skills.
7. Tell me your Work Style.
- It's important to show with your answer that you are flexible, dependable and do not
need handholding.
- Your work style in the past and some examples (Can use STAR
method) - Tie back your answer with the comp,
8. Tell the time when you fail/ made big mistake or
bad decision. - Own up to mistakes and tell any lesson learnt.
- Choose one specific sample and tell in STAR format. Tell how you own up to the mistake and
how did you react and rectify it.
- Explain the things/ skills you have learnt.
9. Tell me how you develop and improve
yourselves.
- Change is the only constant.
- Opportunity to talk about how you invest / upgrade
yourself. - Activities: Reading, networking, seminar,
online classes etc - How the upgrade can contribute to